Aloha Everyone:

    It has been a pretty good week! Our investigators are doing good!! Charles quit smoking and is all set for his baptism coming up in a couple weeks. Kaili is so close to being baptized just has to move out of his girlfriend's house before he can be baptized. Niphae still is having a hard time making it to church....

    So our zone hit all of our goals last week and so our mission President made our zone breakfast. He wants to reward the zones that are doing good to motivate the mission... It was way cool to be the first zone to have this.

    The weather has been crazy this week... We have gotton so much rain and it seems like everyday we were biking and getting drenched.  We had a really cool lesson with a guy that has a brother that is a member and served a mission.  He told his brother that he was meeting with us and his brother challenged him to take the lessons.  We have taught him two lessons so far and he loved them.  It was really cool to see the change it made in him when a family member challenged him.

   Well not much else is going on here.... I am loving it here and having a great time. Thank you for everything you all do for me and I hope all of you have a great week!

Elder Gale

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Aloha Everyone....

    This week has been a pretty good week... We are working hard and trying our best. Things are a little crazy right now.... our investigators are all doing ok just in weird situations. Chucky has moved out of our area but still wants to be taught by us and come to our ward, we will have to see if we will be able to keep teaching him or not. Kaili is doing good, he wants to be baptized but he is living with his girlfriend and won't be able to be baptized while living together.... He wants to be baptized so bad and is trying to move out so he can be baptized and that is great, but just might take some time.... Niphae didn't come to church again this week.. we are trying to get them to come each week so he can be baptized, but the family just can't make it!

     On the good side of things we had so many members give us referrals this week! We got referred to a family that is very interested and wants to learn more. They have member friends that have been working with them and that helps a lot!! Things are still pretty good here in this area and every week won't be a slow week. This next week will be a great week for us!

    Our Zone made a deal with our Mission President, that if we hit all of our goals that we will be able to meet as a zone for P-day..... Well we crushed our goals and so today we get to be with our whole zone instead of just our district! We are having a lunch/get together at one of the beach parks in the area... it should be way fun.

     I hope you are all having a great week and I love to hear from you all! Thank you so much for everything! I hope that I hear from you again soon! 

Elder Gale

Aloha Everyone!

      We have had a great week and our investigators are doing great. Charles a new investigator has committed to stop smoking by the 26th of this month and be baptized on March 15.... He is way awesome! He wants to quit smoking so bad and is so willing to change!  He was smoking 8-10 a day but since we taught him about the Word of Wisdom he is down to 1-2 a day.  He came to church again this week and he loves it! He calls us all the time wanting to meet with him again and we are so excited to see where he goes. 

Niphae Tuia is struggling to keep his commitments again..... Sadly we are having to post-pone his baptism for a later date until they show that this is a priority in their lives.  He wants to be baptized, but his parents have a hard time coming to church.... We are hoping the best for him and want to see him progress to baptism!  

Kaili is doing so great, but he has one problem..... He has nowhere else to live but at his girlfriend's house because his mom kicked him out... so he can't be baptized.... He wants to so bad and he is ready.  It was so hard for us to tell him that he has to wait for now. We are going to try and do anything we can to help him find another place so he can be baptized.

     My new district is awesome!  It is all Elders which is kinda nice haha Sisters are great but still got drama!  The elders in my district are awesome and both are serving in language wards and have all been out for over a year... my companion and I are the youngest two in the district and I am the district leader.  I am excited for the challenge and hope that I can help them the best I can! 

     I am loving it here in this area and loving my chance I have to serve our Heavenly Father.  I am so grateful for this chance to be here in Hawaii and I love all of you and want to thank you for all the support you give me! I hope to hear from you all very soon and have a great week... Love you all!

Elder Gale

I Love The Food Here

Ward Valentine Party

Aloha everyone:

This has been a very interesting and great week!  We have had so much going on! We had a baptism this Saturday and it was great! Nicole got baptized and her husband was able to baptize her.  It was so cool to see how ready she was and excited their family is for them! Their next goal is to go to the Temple in 1 year and that will be so awesome for their family!

We had a way cool experience with a member from another ward in our stake.... He called us and wanted to introduce us to a guy that is working and also renting from him.... He set up an appointment and it went great.  Charles (the friend) is very interested and is wanting to learn more.  He was able to come to the baptism on Saturday and he came to church on Sunday also. ! He is on fire and wants to set up lessons with us and we are very excited to see where he will go.

   

We had a great lesson with Kaili (investigator) this week.  We taught him about the Restoration and he loved it and wants to be baptized.  He has a baptismal date for March 22!!! Things are going great for us with lots of people that are interested in the gospel.

This transfer is already over and it has gone by so fast.  We got the transfer news last night and I will be staying with my companion Elder Young Yen..... And I have been called as our new district leader... I am nervous and excited to be able to have this calling to help my district!! It will be lots of work but it will be worth it.

I hope you are all having a great week and thank you so much for all that you have done for me!  I  love all of you and hope to hear from you soon.

Elder Gale

Nicole's Baptism

They all look so happy!

Aloha Everyone:

 

    This week has been great. Our investigators are all doing good and we have a baptism coming up this Saturday..... We are very excited for that!

 

    This Sunday was pretty crazy.... There was like no one at church, but it sounds like there basically wasn't even a Superbowl game, but O well.... Our neighbors had a huge party and we couldn't even get to our house because there were so many cars.  They brought us over so much food so we were good with it!

 

     Today for p-day was awesome!! We went on a hike with our zone and it was so cool!!  We hiked right along the beach and it was a very nice hike. The scenery was great and part of the hike was on sand and so we got to "kind of" be on the beach hahah close enough! We had a great time!

 

We had a great week with our investigators! They are all progressing great and we have a lot of work to do and it keeps us busy and that is the way we like it!! I hope you all are having a great week! I love to hear from you thank you so much for everything! Sorry the email is kinda short this week! Not much time! Have a great week.

 

Elder Gale

P-Day Hike Along The Beach

Elder Gale & Elder Young Yen 

Hawaiian Wildlife

Now We Can Shoot Hoops At Home

Free Basketball Hoop

P-Day Fun "Aloha"

Aloha Everyone!

     It has been another great week! Things are looking great in our area! We hit a little slow spot for a while but now it is picking up again and our investigators are doing great.  Nicole is still set for Feb. 8th and guess who finally came to church!!! YES the Tuias came.  We were so surprised when they walked through the door that I nearly fell off my seat. We were so excited that they finally made it a priority to come.  Niphae needs to come a couple more times to church and then he can get baptized!  We are shooting for Feb. 22 with him.  We also had a new investigator brought to church by a member and she seems like she is pretty interested and are so excited to see where see goes with the gospel.  Kaili also came to church and the great thing was that we were unable to have a lesson with him this past week but he still came on his own.  It makes it a lot easier on us when our investigators want to come on their own!  We are so excited to have things picking back up and are working extra hard to help each investigator progress.  We were finally able to talk to Destiny and Caleb's mom about teaching them and she wants us to slowly work with them and wants to sit in on the lessons with us.  That is a huge step forward and things are looking good and I am loving this area!

     We have had some crazy weather the past couple days.... it has rained so much and it has been super windy!  The ocean is super crazy right now.... the waves are huge. One of our members told us that the waves were getting up to 30 feet!  With all of the wind and rain it really cools us down and you will all laugh but it really does get cold here at nights haha!! Nothing like Utah, but still pretty cold for here.

     Our Temple trip was today and it was way fun.  We had to wake up at 4 am to make it to the Temple on time because we are on the exact opposite side of the island so  it took us some time to get there with the traffic. We had a great time at the Temple!

    Well I hope you are all having a great week! I love all of you so much! Thank you for all that you have done for me!  I hope to hear from you soon.

Elder Gale

Elder Gale & Elder Young Yen at the Temple

Beautiful Hawaii

Zone Temple Trip

Makeshift Weight Equipment

Hang Loose 

Aloha everyone:

   This has been a great week! Our investigators are all doing great! Nicole is still set for Feb 8th and we are way excited for her. Niphae is still the same just needs to come to church.... We are working with a new investigator named Todd. We havent been able to catch him for a while but we ended up having a great lesson on the Restoration with him and he loved it.

    This week for p-day we were able to do a service project as a zone for a family that had their gym burned down..... It was so sad! Everything that they had was gone.  All burned to the ground and we helped them move out and clean what was left and they were so happy for our help. They are a great christian family and loved to have us there! Their gym trains MMA fighters and they had a big fight coming up this week but now they have no place to train. They said that God will provide a way for them to accomplish what needs to be done. We had a great time helping and talking with them!  

    We had a very cool experience happen this Sunday! We had a man and a women show up for church and we thought that they were members.... We got to talking with them and they are not! But they want to take the lessons and be baptized! They loved church and want to keep coming back! We are way excited to see what happens with them!

    Well I hope you all have a great week and thank you so much for everything! I love and miss you and hope to hear from you soon.

Elder Gale

Zone Service Project

Aloha Everyone:

      This has been another great week! We had some really cool things happen. We had a lesson with our investigator Nicole and we invited her to be baptized and she accepted. Her husband just quit smoking and he will be ready to baptize her on Feb. 8.  She is excited that he will be able to baptize her and is very ready!!

       We also have a new investigator named Kaili, he is 19 and is dating a member.... he is very interested in the church and wants to learn more. We were able to share how we got the Book of Mormon and the Restoration with him and he loved it. He said that he wants to learn more and wants to keep meeting with us.

        Our other investigators are still about the same and Niphae still just needs to make it to church.  Destiny and Caleb are still unable to get baptized because their mom won't let them.... We are working so hard to try and help these investigators progress and to be able to be baptized! Things are going great in this area with so much potential and so many people to teach.  I am glad that I am training because that means that I will most likely get to stay in this area for 3 months.  I am loving it here and will be sad when I have to leave....

      Well I hope you all are having a great week and I love all of you and hope to hear from you soon. Thank you so much for everything you have done for me!

Elder Gale

Zone P-Day Fun

Aloha everyone!

     This has been a very crazy week! Tuesday was transfers and I had to drive in, drop of missionaries that were getting transferred and pick up the new Elders coming into our zone. Then later at night I drove in to get my new companion Elder Young Yen..... He just flew in from the MTC and we had a training with President Warner..... After the Training we drove back to our area and he was able to unpack his things and since it was new years eve we had a party with our zone. We were able to stay up until 1 am to watch fireworks. What a crazy first night in the mission field for Elder Young Yen!! Wednesday we had the whole day off so we got to just hang out with our zone and have fun!

    Thursday was a great day! We went over to talk to Kekoa and earlier in the week we asked him to read the Book of Mormon and to pray if he should be baptized! When we got there Thursday I asked him if he was able to do it and he said that he did!  I asked how he felt and he looked at me and said, "I feel like I want to get baptized!!!" I couldn't believe what he said and I had to ask him to say it again. We said that is awesome and asked when he wanted to get baptized and he said this Saturday! So we started making phone calls and got everything set up and this past Saturday Kekoa was baptized!!!!! I was so excited that he was finally able to decide that he wanted to be baptized. I know that the spirit was able to touch his heart and tell him what he needed to do. This Sunday he was given the Gift of the Holy Ghost and confirmed a member. Later on at church he was ordained to a Priest in the Aaronic Priesthood. This was an amazing experience for me to watch him take these steps in his life!

     We are having lots of success in this area and have so many people to teach and we have some other investigators who are so close to baptism.  I am loving this area and our ward here in Nanakuli and the people are so amazing and humble.  I am very grateful for this chance to be here serving the people of Hawaii! I hope all of you are having a great week so far and a great new year and I love all of you and hope to hear from you soon!

Love

Elder Gale

Kekoa's Baptism

Elder Gale & Kekoa

Elder Gale, Kekoa & Elder Rigby

Aloha Everyone!

     Sorry it is so late but today has been a crazy day!! We had 2 service projects today and it left us with little time to email! We laid concrete for a family in our ward and it was way fun! They are a new family that just moved in and needed help at their new house. The other project was for sister Lew... We moved some palets for her and then she gave us smoothies and coconuts to crack open.

     This week has been super crazy!  I found out on Friday that I will be training a brand new missionary and his name is Elder Yen and I will be picking him up on Tuesday. The crazy thing is that I will have to drive from Makakilo all the way to Honolulu by myself! I am excited and nervous to train but it will be a great experience!  My current companion Elder Rigby is getting in zone, in ward transferred!! So he will be staying here which is super cool!

     As far as our investigators they are all doing great! We met with Nicole Barcarse and she is doing awesome, she is wanting to get baptized when her husband can baptize her.... We are working on word of wisdom with him and it is going good... he should be ready with in a couple of weeks.  Kekoa is still good he has prayed and read his book of mormon and is still searching for his answer for baptism! He is so so close! As soon as he feels ready he can get baptized. We have hit a really slow spot with Destiny and Caleb, their mom still doesn't want them to get baptized...... But we are still trying to work with her and solve her worries. Niphae Tuia is another investigator that is super close.... his parents are both members and want him baptized. The only problem they have is they cant make it to church and they need to come before he can be baptized. Those are our main investigators that we are working with and we have a couple more that we are working with as well.....

On Tuesday they had all of us who are training come to the presidents home in Honolulu. The trainers got there early and then we went into the back room and waited, then they read a paper of where they will be serving and who will be their trainer and then we walked out one by one... It was a way awesome experience!  Elder Yen is from Samoa and has been in the MTC for 6 weeks.  He speaks pretty good English for as long as he has been there.  

 I hope all of you are having a great new years and I hope to hear from you all very soon! Thank you so much for everything! I love all of you have a great week!!

Elder Gale

Helping members lay concrete

We love doing service

I will miss Elder Rigby

Hawaii is always beautiful

Elder Yen & Elder Gale